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Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians...
The Way Back
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The sequel to one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a keystone title...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller
Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition
Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has...
The Cold War: A World History
Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...
The Origins of the Second World War
Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
Somme: Into the Breach
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
Author: Peter Hennessy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
1914: The Year the World Ended
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
The Great Crash 1929
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Author: Sean McMeekin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life
Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Letters to Camondo
Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with...
Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
Secret and Special
Author: Will Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats...
Catch-22
Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...